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by sllabres 4y ago
A bit nitpicking but even with a proper implemented HA solution there would be a service interruption.
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by sllabres 4y ago
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14290617
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by sllabres 4y ago
I'll remember well UCSD Pascal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal especially as compiling on a system with one floppy drive required 5-6 changes of the floppy disk even for a 'hello world'. So on
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by sllabres 5y ago
The country of Elbonia passes the bill for the "moon bashing act" and permanently forward the clock by _12_ hours (and not just a laughable one hour), after Elbonien scientists discovered that the cost savings for street lighting
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by sllabres 5y ago
If you like such 'stories' i can recommend "Computer-Related Risks by Peter G. Neumann". A bit older (1994), but still an interesting read.
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by sllabres 5y ago
I would say that folding is not a consequence of SMT, but of the assignment between the VP (virtual processors) assigned to the LPAR (VM) and the processing units assigned. So more a effect resulting from the virtualization with consequenc
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by sllabres 5y ago
>> Kernel panics don't happen nearly as often as they used to My earliest kernel I have used in something one might call production are 1.2.12 around 1995. I must say even then, with this early kernels I had no panics at all and
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by sllabres 5y ago
a crumpy commercial! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU ;)
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by sllabres 5y ago
Isn't that quite similar to help solving cold cases as example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo On April 24, 2018, authorities charged 72-year-old DeAngelo with eight counts of first-degree mur
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by sllabres 5y ago
~ 10 years old, and only slightly related, but interesting documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_than_Honey
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by sllabres 5y ago
There was a nice GUI back then, developed Independent from the POVRAY renderer named "Moray". More surprisingly, there is still a website online for the GUI: http://www.stmuc.com/moray/
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by sllabres 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848762
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by sllabres 5y ago
Maybe I do not fully understand, what is requested but I think am missing something. I thought one would like to have a ground profile, _without_ the trees. If one laser penetrates the leaves (and not the ground), why the complicated setup
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by sllabres 5y ago
Everybody who has watched one of the many interesting Bosnianbill videos (with the cool intros ;)) might be surprised to learn that Bosnianbills video channel retires. If you have watched one of his videos and learned something give him a n
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by sllabres 5y ago
Thats about United Kingdom, but Ireland is mentioned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10
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by sllabres 5y ago
True for all x86 virtualization i know of. But not true for IBM Power LPARs where only the entitled CPU resources have to be licensed and can even be shared between LPAR (Power Enterprise Pool). I don't know for sure but would theref
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by sllabres 5y ago
This is quite similar to the early decryption of the analog Nagravision TV encryption system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagravision worked. Did it myself at the time, but on to slow hardware/to little optimized
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by sllabres 6y ago
As it seems, the web page is a little to late and the ever given is free :)
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by sllabres 6y ago
The linked article https://somerandomstuff1.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/geoguessr-... is interesting -- at least for me, a very casual player ;).
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by sllabres 6y ago
Happy user of silhouette.
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by sllabres 6y ago
Just some days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25633483
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by sllabres 6y ago
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-dhkz#26d05e8c
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by sllabres 6y ago
Correct, and IIRC the TTL is 5 days.
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by sllabres 6y ago
Cool feature. Visual Studio seems to have "edit and continue" which I only knew from VB, but seems to be available in C# and C++ too. Not the same, but it shortens the development cycle in a similar fashion. The feature in Python
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by sllabres 6y ago
ma͢d͟n͡e͡ss :D
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by sllabres 6y ago
"postfix based" == RPN (reverse polish notation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation If one wants to try out on an android mobile go to: https://play.google.com/store/ap
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by sllabres 6y ago
not a bad example nevertheless, but as we are talking about grammar https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/perly.y
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by sllabres 6y ago
This is the same effect JPEG chroma subsampling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling encoding takes advantage of.
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by sllabres 6y ago
The articles summarizes > It’s where you keep the mechanism secret, not the key. I think this can be, as you write, defense in depth if the secret of the mechanism is not the only defense. As example the block cipher for the Common Scram
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by sllabres 6y ago
Yes another 'glitch' and even funnier, because no one was harmed... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc .

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